I dunno, if Gale were another player at the table, would you want him to roll a deception check, wouldn't that kind of metaknowledge taint the roleplaying.
With the tadpoles we get special options to mind-meld, everything else I think is being acted well enough to convey their perspectives. Gale is pretty cool about his affliction, until you withhold a magic item from him, then he loses his cool, keep doing it, and he might more than lose his cool. Nothing in the sequence is disingenuous.
Either I've forgotten or missed it, when is Tav able to lie to the others?
